Although everything happens according to the Divine
Will, and as Baba explained, not even a leaf can move without
it, the limited mind can neither know nor even understand how
the Divine Will operates. It is beyond mankind's comprehension.
The Avatar comes to give His Wish to humanity, so
they can follow His Wish and come to closer to God.

Every individual, when he takes birth, brings along
with him his past sanskaras (impressions). The physical body
is nothing but the mould of these past sanskaras. Through the
course of reincarnation, the sanskaras go on changing, as does
the face and body. Sanskaras are different for everyone. This
can easily be understood by looking at the human face. Each
face is different from every other face. And for each birth, one
spends only the sanskaras from the past life. While spending
these sanskaras, one collects new sanskaras, which are then
spent in the next life.

Because they perpetuate the false self, as long as these
sanskaras are in the mind, you remain bound. In a very real
sense, they are a disease that needs to be treated. But each of
us needs a different treatment for the same disease - the
disease of the false self. The Avatar, knowing each person's
impressions, treats each one according to those individual
impressions. His treatment is to wipe out the impressions that
obstruct the progress of consciousness towards God.

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There are three types of impressions: natural, unnatural
and non-natural. Natural impressions make your consciousness
progress through evolution. They are created in response
to God's Whim, which is in everyone, and help consciousness
progress towards God through evolution. Unnatural
impressions are those which are not in response to the Whim.
They are a response from the mind and obstruct your
consciousness from progressing towards God. Non-natural
impressions only cause diseases through the environment.
They are easily wiped out. But unnatural impressions are
difficult to wipe out, because they are due to your actions.
Ultimately, all sanskaras have to be wiped out in order for you
to become consciously One with God.

When the Avatar comes down on earth, His Work for
humanity is to eliminate impressions that obstruct humanity
from following God. After He drops His body, the force of His
work is felt for 400 to 500 years as people gradually turn
towards God. Because the general population of the world
comes to know about God, begins to believe in Him and
follow Him, this period of time is called His Universal
Manifestation. During this period, most of the unnatural
impressions of humanity and the lower kingdoms are wiped
out.

When the force of His Work is at its height,
brotherhood can be most easily felt in the world. During this
time, Illusion bows down to Him. But then, as His
Manifestation wanes, the force of Illusion grows throughout
the world, gradually raising its head. Selfishness, greed, anger,
lust, jealousy and all other low desires increase once again,
creating impressions that obstruct humanity from following
God. Gradually, the world's condition becomes bad. It turns
from bad to worse, and then from worse to worst. Except for a
few of His true lovers, humanity remains in the grip of
Illusion, forgetting God. At that point in time, God comes
back again in the form of the Avatar (the Christ, the Prophet)
with a different name and face to

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perform His duty to Creation through His Universal Work,
giving each and every soul a spiritual push towards God.

His duty toward humanity is once again to create
awareness of God in peoples' hearts by minimising the
impressions that obstruct consciousness from moving towards
God. This awareness allows humanity to follow Him in a way
particularly suited to them, by following His Wish. Although
He is the same Ancient One, it is critical to follow the Wish of
the present Avatar, because His Wish is based on helping
humanity overcome its present set of obstructions against
following God. When He begins His work, humanity is under
the force of Maya, and so they cannot recognise Him. But
when, because of His work, their impressions are minimised,
they recognise Him, accept Him and follow Him by following
His Wish. When the Avatar expresses His Wish, He also gives
humanity the awareness of its importance in order to enable
them to carry it out. After He drops His physical form, the
Ancient One remains active in the form of the Holy Spirit. He
continues to minimise obstructive impressions, so that
humanity's consciousness may progress towards God. With
every Advent, human consciousness is raised to a certain
level. But at the end of the cycle of cycles, human
consciousness is raised to an even greater extent, affecting all
of mankind. We are at the end of the cycle of cycles, which is
why Beloved Baba has said the world will come to Him.

Every person unknowingly has the responsibility to
spend those impressions which they have brought with them
into the present life. No one knows what those impressions are
and how they should be spent. When you spend your
sanskaras according to your own wishes and desires, you
collect new sanskaras and remain bound. But if you spend
sanskaras according to the Avatar's Wish, you follow God and
do not collect new impressions. In fact, you lose some of the
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impressions you had. Therefore everyone's real duty is to
follow the Avatar's most recent Wish for humanity.

The Ancient One and humanity each have a
responsibility and a duty. The responsibility of the Ancient
One is to take care of each and every soul in Creation so that it
eventually becomes One with God. His duty is to descend into
human form. In general, He gives a spiritual push to each and
every soul in Creation. In particular, He creates awareness of
God in humanity by removing obstructions in consciousness,
so that consciousness may proceed to the Truth.

As for the responsibility of humanity, each individual
must spend the sanskaras (impressions) that they bring with
them to their present life. The critical decision is how those
impressions are to be spent. And that is where your duty lies -
to spend them according to the Wish of the Avatar, the
Messiah, the Messenger of God, the Christ, in order that your
consciousness eventually becomes One with God, completing
the Avatar's responsibility to the soul.